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'^rV = ..,..: Jim Lonborg From Red Sox star to UMass student Reorganization: Crisis in the administrate Racial Tension A look at the university's '.legacy of racial problems Food Review The darker side of Daka Plus fiction, poetry and art GIVE U/MASS PROGRESSIVE STUDENT GOVERNMENT VOTE CHRIS ALBERTO Student Trustee and the Progressive Student Alliance Committed to: Allocating SAC Funds Fairly Revamping Proficiency Exam Stamping Out Racial Harassment Improving Day Care Increasing Bilingual Services Eliminating Sexual Harassment Fighting Tuition Hikes No Reorganization Without Student Representation CAS Octavio Ramirez Nelson Azocar Kristan Bagley Ginger Southern Ardi Batmanghelidj Sue Hinsvark David Cutler Ann Coppola David Lowney Susan Cantrill At large Seth Kolseth Chris Linden Alec Johnson CPS Kathy Davis Joannie Donahue Joyce Hamel George Heffernan Dennis Lordan Judy Bousquin = PAID POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT Volume 1 Issue 3 ^Wavelength \\ February 25, 1980 Welcome to the third issue of Wavelength. We'd like to credit Greg Walker for the graphic on the out- side back cover and Steven Eric Em- mond for the graphic on the inside Table of Contents back. Although we have expanded to for- ty-eight pages, we still lack the space to print all the quality material we receive. We've tried to cover a — variety of subjects which reflect the Administrative Shake-Up Janet Diamond . 2 diverse interests and concerns of the Jim Lonborg — Rick Bowers and Al McNeill 4 university community. We actively Blackwell Interview — Rick Bowers 8 encourage feedback, as well as Racial Tensions — Rick Bowers 8 suggestions for future issues. Cleveland Tenure Case — Stephen Cain 11 As Wavelength continues to grow, Greasy Spoon Award — D. Neal and R. Powers 12 we will need more resources to Student Guide to University Governance — produce the kind of quality magazine Monica Hileman 16 students deserve. Up until now, we Black Artists Union — Karen Kelly 20 have been operating on a shoestring Student Anxiety — Donna Neal 24 budget, supplementing much of the cost out of personal funds. If you en- joy Wavelength and would like to see Fiction more issues, write to the SAC, sub- mit material, or join us on our staff. We are still located in Building Billy — Maris Nichols 14 010/6/066, x2636. Nightflight — Stephen G. Cain 18 Saved by the Glass — Drohan O'Neill 25 The Wavelength Staff President Rick Bowers Poetry Vice President Janet Diamond Managing Editor Preoccupations — Maris Nichols 19 Donna Neal Untitled — Allison Hurley 19 Photo Editor Before the Fall - John G. Hall 19 Debbie Karacozian to G.E. -A.E.M 19 Editors Morning on Creation Day — deta galloway 26 Rick Bowers Paradox — Gary Evans .27 Janet Diamond Out The Other Door — Gary Evans 27 Literary Editors Jamaica — deta galloway , . 32 Al McNeill Progression — John G. Hall 33 Donna Neal Resisting Conclusions — Maris Nichols 33 Staff: Chris Alberto, Stephen Cain, twilight — A.E.M. 33 Brigid Coffey, Gary Evans, Jean- Genteel Psycho Ward — Janet Diamond 39 Claude Ferdinand, Donna Handy, Loving, I'm Giving — D. Scott Robinson 41 Monica Hileman, Linda Hurley, Rough Edges — Denise R. Maffett 45 Karen MacDonald, Joe McLellan, Lonq Nights and Winter — John G. Hall 45 Laura Newbold, Maris Nichols, Adjectival Mania — Chapter 066 47 Steven Petrie, Rebecca Powers, Oc- tavio Ramirez, Stephanie Romanos, Tony Rubino, Dan Sardo Letters to the Editors 46 Special Thanks: The English Campus Controversy — Chris Alberto vs, Steve Petrie 23 Department, The Point Press, The V J> Pub and the Media Center Wavelength I ADMINISTRATIVE SHAKE-UP Special Asst. to Chancellor on Reorganization Tonn A Assembly Subcommittee on Reorganization Tonn Chancellor Corrigan Safwat Bronk -Executive _ Deputy Chancellor Broderick Vice 'Chancellor Vice Chancellor Vice Chancellor of of Administration and Academic Affairs & Finance Provost (vacant position) Baxter Dean of Admissions and Records Hartnagel Registrar Frank Casey Vice Chancellor ot Student Affairs Tubbs Placement Counseling INFO Sheri Costello Robinson Thomas Director of Financial Aid Brennen Musical Chairs at the Top Who's Left Standing Wavelength 2 " by Janet Diamond changes he made was to institute the Of- because the present structure does not fice of Deputy Chancellor, a position allow the chancellor enough time to work with external reorganization plans, The usually anonymous and invisible created from the vacant Vice Chancellor the legislature, and to attend to other off offices on the 3rd floor of the Ad- of Academic Affairs Office. He placed Services campus duties. ministration Building have been in a Academic Support Director Tubbs disagrees. "It's not the chan- state of chaos since the beginning of the James Broderick in that position. cellor's job to lobby; his is Spring Semester. The cause of the uproar Corrigan and Broderick taught together job to run the campus. That's why we have a is a skimpy document called the Special at Bryn Mawr University several years President's Report of the University Assembly Plan- ago. Office." of the concerns ning Committee. To understand the "I consider Jim Broderick the prime One about the executive vice chancellor position is that amazing impact of this small report one mover behind the reorganization plan. it will add another layer to already must follow a trail Uttered with clumsy He's been trying to get something like an decisions, petty power struggles, mangled this through for a long time," asserts top-heavy administration. "Any time there is another layer inserted into the egos, and profound decisions made in Tubbs. hasty disregard for those most intimately Broderick denies this charge, stating system, no one is too happy," comments affected. that he sees his role as temporary until a Baxter, he agrees, however, that "in con- text with external reorganization, the new plan makes sense." Along with complicating the lines of "Having worked with John Silber, I'd authority, the additional cost of such a position is a source of concern. SAC say Corrigan isn't fit to walk on the same Chairperson Lucky Dodson comments, "If he is going to spend money, spend it intellectual street as Silber. on the students, not on administrative staff." Tubbs estimates the new position, when secretarial staff and an assistant John Robinson .are added, would cost up to $100,000. At present, the executive vice chan- cellor position has a dim future. The The controversy rages around two provost can be found. "I prefer the President's Office is not in favor of it, main issues: many feel the report was provost position to the deputy vice chan- and it seems unlikely that the Board of ill-advised and contains features which cellor position and I am not a candidate Trustees would approve of such a move. are in conflict with the special needs of for that job." The chancellor has stated, however, that UMass/Boston, and that Chancellor The chancellor agrees. The provost "the executive vice chancellor position is Corrigan's implementation methods are position has already been acted upon. A still theoretically possible." insulting to his professional staff. The search committee has been set up, and What is of more concern is the moving of offices vice axle upon which the controversy turns is ads for this position have been sent to under the chan- the Office of Student Affairs, with Vice the appropriate publications. The cellors and the report's suggestion that Chancellor of Student Affairs LeVester provost will be the senior administrator the Affirmative Action Office no longer Tubbs at the center. As a result of the in charge of academic functions. All the report to the chancellor. The Affirmative controversy, Vice Chancellor Tubbs has deans will report to him or her. Action move has been vetoed by the offered his resignation. "I have There is little controversy, however, chancellor, but other moves are still un- resigned," states Tubbs, "for two over the provost position. The position der consideration. The Financial Aid Of- reasons: lack of communication bet- most under fire is the executive vice fice move has already been accomplished continued on page ween me and the chancellor, and an chancellor position. If an executive vice 30 irresolvable difference in philosophy on chancellor office is created, both Tubbs what the role of Student Affairs at and Vice Chancellor of Administration UMass should be." and Finance Thomas Baxter will report Reorganization, on an abstract level, to that office. Presently, they, as well as means a change in structure, a systemic the deans, Affirmative Action Officer overhaul. Reporting lines are Johnson, and Personnel Director Ed- changed; offices are moved from one munds, report directly to the chancellor. area to another. But the changes never With the two positions executive vice occur in the abstract. Philosophies about chancellor and provost, the the nature of the organization motivate organizational structure will be firmly changes, and people are hurt or helped divided into academic and non-academic by those changes. In addition, personal functions. politics play a major role in the kinds of The reasons stated by Assembly Long changes which come about. Range Planning Committee (LRPC) The tool of change is power.